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3 Lyons silk
Detroit
To this same category of fabrics belongs a piece in the Detroit Institute of Arts (fig. 3).- Weibel describes it as follows: "White, red,
light-blue, and purple silks and metal thread. In white taffeta ground,
over a floated pattern, floral tendrils with stems and leaves of gold curve
symmetrically. Possibly from a design by Jean-Pierre Ringuet of Lyons
(1728-1767 or 1771)." The author points out that it is most characteristic of artists such as Ringuet to use at least three tones of each color,
the middle tone as "couleur locale," the light and dark tones to give
plasticity.
A piece in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London3 is also close
to the Oberlin silks. Thornton describes it as follows: "Mauve taffeta
(tabbv) ground with a blue flush effect, brocaded with coloured silks.
2 Inv. no. 48.17. Adele Coulin Weibel, Two Thousand Years of Textiles, New
York, 1952, fig. 294.
3 Inv. no. 313-1896. Peter Thornton, Baroque and Rococo Silks, London, 1965,
fig. 99A.
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3 Lyons silk
Detroit
To this same category of fabrics belongs a piece in the Detroit Institute of Arts (fig. 3).- Weibel describes it as follows: "White, red,
light-blue, and purple silks and metal thread. In white taffeta ground,
over a floated pattern, floral tendrils with stems and leaves of gold curve
symmetrically. Possibly from a design by Jean-Pierre Ringuet of Lyons
(1728-1767 or 1771)." The author points out that it is most characteristic of artists such as Ringuet to use at least three tones of each color,
the middle tone as "couleur locale," the light and dark tones to give
plasticity.
A piece in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London3 is also close
to the Oberlin silks. Thornton describes it as follows: "Mauve taffeta
(tabbv) ground with a blue flush effect, brocaded with coloured silks.
2 Inv. no. 48.17. Adele Coulin Weibel, Two Thousand Years of Textiles, New
York, 1952, fig. 294.
3 Inv. no. 313-1896. Peter Thornton, Baroque and Rococo Silks, London, 1965,
fig. 99A.
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Lyons silk. Detroit

Identifier

AMAM_Bulletin_025_001_0016.tif

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